The Social Democratic Federation and the Second Boer War (1896-1902)
Abstract
The aim of the present work is to explore the political positions of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), a British socialist party affiliated to the Second International, towards the Second Boer War (1899-1902), for which it adopts a time frame that goes from the Jameson Raid in 1896 to the end of the war in 1902. The article proposes an approach that articulates the study of the theoretical production with that of the political life of the SDF, contemplating the different political positions towards imperialism and the war, the debates initiated from these and their consequences for the internal development of the organization, as well as the political activism of the party to oppose the conflict and the ties established with other groups and personalities of the pro-Boer movement. The work is based on the analysis of primary sources, mainly on articles from the party newspaper Justice and its theoretical magazine The Social-Democrat, on books of the time and on pamphlets from the pro-Boer movement. In this way, it explores as a whole a current of British socialism that is essentially internationalist and anti-imperialist.
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